A picture of the first drawbridge to cross the Chicago River. [It] was built in 1824 [and] was located at what is now Dearborn St. On Nov. 16, 1833, Nelson R. Norton, a shipwright, came to Chicago and started cutting timber for this bridge. The...

Corporal Charles Overstreet was the photographer and radioman for the Headquarters Radio Unit of the 252nd Field Artillery Battalion during World War II. During the later part of the war his unit travelled across Germany in a bid to capture...